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September 12, 1985: Steve Jobs Leaves Apple to Start NeXT

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, apple, bankruptcy, bud tribble, ceo, day in tech history, day jobs, george crow, integrated circuit, john sculley, lewin, Podcast, power struggle, resignation, reverse engineering, space race, steve jobs, susan barnes, technology history, tenders 0 Comments September 12, 2018

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1985 – After an interesting power struggle with John Sculley, Steve Jobs decides to throw in the towel and tenders his resignation at Apple. He announces at the Board meeting he and other low level employees will be starting a new company – NeXT. The next day, Jobs tells John Sculley that Bud Tribble, Dan’l Lewin, George Crow, Rich Page, and Susan Barnes will be leaving to join him.

Jobs new company would end up becoming the foundation of Mac when it is bought by Apple in 1996 and Steve Jobs comes back to become CEO.

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Integrated circuit is demonstrated
Space Race begins
Discman is introduced

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August 18, 1992: Wang Files for Bankruptcy

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, bankruptcy protection, best buy, ceo, computer, controversy, et, financial outlook, grokster, hp, leo, palm, Podcast, scope, smart phone, technology history, TouchPad, wang, wang computers, wang global 0 Comments August 18, 2018

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Wang Computers had been growing, but their financial outlook didn’t seem good. In 1992, they filed for Bankruptcy protection. They eventually got out of bankruptcy, but not before they changed the scope of the business. They changed to Wang Global, then in 1999 were bought out by “Gentronics”

2011 – CEO Leo Apatheker made an announcement HP will be focusing on Enterprise, and putting the PC division on sale. This sale did not include the WebOS software. He instantly discontinued the HP TouchPad tablet and Pre series of smart phone. By the evening, most stores would discount the TouchPad to $99. This brought a lot of controversy, as some people would go to buy a TouchPad at Best Buy and they were denied as HP told them to ship the units back. BTW – HP was incorporated back in 1947 on this day.

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ET is released
Android “Near Release” SDK 0.9
Grokster ruling stating that P2P are not liable for the content they deliver

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August 13, 2008: Datallegro, XPrime and Microsoft

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine acquisition, aggregator, apple, Atari, ceo, datallegro, historical events, iccp, jardin, Microsoft, palm viix, Podcast, technology history, today in tech history, vx 0 Comments August 13, 2018

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Datallegro – a warehouse application – had been sued by XPrime, where Cary Jardin (CEO of Datallegro) used to work. Datallegro was in mid acquisition by Microsoft at the time. The acquisition completed on Sept 16, 2008. The suit was analyzed by critics as “not relevant”. No word on how that suit ended.

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ICCP is founded
Atari sues Amiga
Apple’s Rooftop is burning

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August 11, 1993: Red Hat Goes Public

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine alibaba, amp, apple, august 11, bd, bob young, ceo, common stock, handheld computers, hypercard, IPO, Linux, linux distribution, open source software, palm viix, professional type, red hat, technology history, wall street, wall street gains, Yahoo 0 Comments August 11, 2018

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Red Hat is a Linux distribution and a vendor. They are on the S&P 500 company list for it. Founded in 1993, this company has provided a more professional type of open source software – giving pay support and Enterprise editions for IT pros. CEO Bob Young brought the company to this point. They filed for IPO in 1999. It turned out to be one of the largest Wall Street Gains in history. They put up 900,000 shares of common stock. Red Hat spiked at $136 a share, but is currently at $57

Also, Palm released the Palm VIIx and Vx handheld computers. VIIx was $449 and the Vx was $399.

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BD-ROM is Finalized
Yahoo and Alibaba.com
Hypercard is Introduced by Apple.

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August 3, 2005: Mozilla Corporation Established, 1977: TRS-80 Model I

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine antitrust case, bit computer, board of directors, ceo, european union, first computer, inch rca, kovacs, lewis kornfeld, microcomputer, Microsoft, mozilla, non profit organization, radio shack, taxable organization, trs 0 Comments August 3, 2018

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2005 – To handle revenues, the Mozilla Foundation established the Mozilla Corporation. This taxable organization can skirt any legal issues the Foundation would endure for being a non-profit organization. A board of directors brought Gary Kovacs on as CEO to the Mozilla Corporation.It was the first computer based on the Zilog processor.

1977, Lewis Kornfeld announces the TRS-80 Model I microcomputer. This 8-bit computer had 4KB RAM, 4KB ROM, 12-inch RCA video, and came with the CP/M OS. The computer was $399.95, but add all the extras and it would come to $599.95. The computer was presented by Lewis Kornfeld, president of Radio Shack at the time.

The TRS-80 Model I computer was discontinued in 1981.

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PayPal outage
European Union opens an antitrust case against Microsoft

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July 29, 2009: Yahoo Search Sold to Microsoft

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, bold move, buyout bid, carol bartz, ceo, chief exec, day in tech history, dram, Google, historical events, japan, jerry yang, masahiro inoue, merger, Microsoft, Podcast, recent news, rtm, search advertisers, search engine technologies, sirius, snag, steve ballmer, technology history, Tim Morse, xm, Yahoo, yahoo jp 0 Comments July 29, 2018

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We dealt with the big buyout bid fight between Microsoft and Yahoo back in 2008. Of course, the outcome was that Yahoo’s CEO Jerry Yang stepped down and Carol Bartz took the reigns. However, Carol did make a bold move in 2009 as she agreed to a deal with Steve Ballmer. Microsoft would get Yahoo Search engine technologies and create a search engine for Yahoo. In return, Yahoo would handle advertising for premium search advertisers. This was a ten year deal.BTW – Recent news stated that Yahoo.jp is using Google in Japan. While it did put a snag in the agreement this week, Yahoo Japan Chief Exec. Masahiro Inoue said Microsoft didn’t localize the service in Japan, therefore, they went with Google.

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WindowsNT 4.0 RTM is released
100-nanosecond 64 kbit DRAM
Sirius and XM finish their merger

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July 16, 1995: Amazon Goes Online, Happy Birthday Orville Redenbacker

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 17 years, aggregator, amazon, Amazon.com, amp, bellevue washington, business model, ceo, computer, computer models, creative analogies, dan bricklin, day in tech history, e reader, fundamental mechanisms, Geek, Google, happy birthday, iTunes, July, kindle fire, michael dell, orville redenbacher, orville redenbacker, Podcast, product on the web, resellers, RSS, sparc machines, stitcher, technology history, touch screen, twitter, woot, zappos 0 Comments July 16, 2018

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Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought. That was the first book Amazon sold on July 16th, 1995. The company ran from their garage in Bellevue, Washington. 3 SPARC machines was all they had and a cool little mechanism that rung a bell every time a book was sold. The business model was set to make profit in 5 years. It was a good thing, because that may have helped it survive the dot com bubble.

17 years later, Amazon is going strong. Purchases of companies like WOOT! and Zappos!, along with the introduction of Kindle e-reader and Amazon Prime, the company is one of the largest resellers of product on the web.

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Happy Birthday Dan Bricklin and Orville Redenbacher
Michael Dell steps aside as CEO
Yahoo! Hires Marissa Mayer as CEO

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June 18, 2007: Terry Semel of Yahoo Step Down

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2007 – Terry Semel was under pressure by the board because of dissatisfaction of his compensation. Terry was brought in to create a partnership with Hollywood, which really didn’t happen. He handed the reigns over to Jerry Yang, who started promising revitalized talks with Microsoft. There are a few that even speculate that was when the buyout of Yahoo began. Jerry Yang stepped down in 200

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1999 – Palm announces the m100
2009 – Jammie Thomas-Rasset was found guilty of copyright infringement and ordered to pay 1.92 million to the RIAA.
Microsoft announced the Surface Tablet

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